GapMind for catabolism of small carbon sources

 

succinate catabolism in Shewanella loihica PV-4

Best path

dctQ, dctM, dctP

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Rules

Overview: GapMind represents succinate uptake only, as succinate is part of central metabolism. Specifically, succinate can be consumed by the TCA cycle enzymes succinate dehydrogenase, fumarase (forming L-malate), and malate dehydrogenase (either decarboxylating, with pyruvate as the product, or not, with oxalacetate with the product; both compounds are central metabolic intermediates). It's also possible that malate could be decarboxylated to lactate, as in malolactic fermentation by lactic acid bacteria.

9 steps (7 with candidates)

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Step Description Best candidate 2nd candidate
dctQ succinate TRAP transporter, small permease component DctQ Shew_1445
dctM succinate TRAP transporter, large permease protein DctM Shew_1444
dctP succinate TRAP transporter, component DctP Shew_1446
Alternative steps:
dauA succinate:H+ symporter DauA Shew_0497
dctA succinate:H+ symporter DctA Shew_0743 Shew_1224
Dshi_1194 TRAP transporter for succinate, fumarate, L-malate, and 2-oxoglutarate, fused 4TM/12TM components
Dshi_1195 TRAP transporter for succinate, fumarate, L-malate, and 2-oxoglutarate, substrate-binding component
satP succinate:H+ symporter SatP Shew_0904
sdc succinate:Na+ symporter Sdc Shew_2490

Confidence: high confidence medium confidence low confidence
transporter – transporters and PTS systems are shaded because predicting their specificity is particularly challenging.

This GapMind analysis is from Sep 17 2021. The underlying query database was built on Sep 17 2021.

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Each pathway is defined by a set of rules based on individual steps or genes. Candidates for each step are identified by using ublast (a fast alternative to protein BLAST) against a database of manually-curated proteins (most of which are experimentally characterized) or by using HMMer with enzyme models (usually from TIGRFam). Ublast hits may be split across two different proteins.

A candidate for a step is "high confidence" if either:

where "other" refers to the best ublast hit to a sequence that is not annotated as performing this step (and is not "ignored").

Otherwise, a candidate is "medium confidence" if either:

Other blast hits with at least 50% coverage are "low confidence."

Steps with no high- or medium-confidence candidates may be considered "gaps." For the typical bacterium that can make all 20 amino acids, there are 1-2 gaps in amino acid biosynthesis pathways. For diverse bacteria and archaea that can utilize a carbon source, there is a complete high-confidence catabolic pathway (including a transporter) just 38% of the time, and there is a complete medium-confidence pathway 63% of the time. Gaps may be due to:

GapMind relies on the predicted proteins in the genome and does not search the six-frame translation. In most cases, you can search the six-frame translation by clicking on links to Curated BLAST for each step definition (in the per-step page).

For more information, see:

If you notice any errors or omissions in the step descriptions, or any questionable results, please let us know

by Morgan Price, Arkin group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory